Why simple fonts does not load widths

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

I am trying to get to the character widths for a SimpleFont.

Looking at the code here: https://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf/blob/master/pdftext.ml#L432 When loading a simple font, firstchar, lastchar and widths are all initilized to 0 (or empty list).

What is the reason for that? What is the point of having the firstchar, lastchar and widths members of the simple font if they are not read anyway?

[johnwhitington]

It looks like the widths can be read directly from the fontmetrics entry.

The firstchar, lastchar and widths entries are used when writing a font.

This part of the code was written about fifteen years ago, and I couldn't tell you why now.

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

Ah, ok, fair enough :).

Thank you for the information and thank you for camlpdf!